McKenna: SCOTUS will keep law, scrap mandate

3/29/12 12:06 PM EDT

Washington Republican Attorney General Rob McKenna, who is walking a tightrope with a carefully crafted position on the health care law, said he believes the Supreme Court will rule to keep it intact, while throwing out the individual mandate.

“Based on the questions and comments justices made, supporters of the individual mandate are justifiably nervous,” McKenna said a few hours after the high court concluded its third and final day of oral arguments in the case brought by 26 states, including Washington.